It’s actually incredible that someone who isn’t Donald Trump has managed to make Donald Trump look this bad, but here we are. First, Trump Organization attorney Michael Cohen told the Daily Beast that marital rape is perfectly legal A-OK. Then, in the same disastrous interview, he told Daily Beast reporter Tim Mak he’d “destroy your life,” the way he said he had done to a former Miss USA contestant. Oh, yeah? Great, let’s talk about that too!
The Daily Beast’s Tim Mak and Brandy Zadrozny have gotten some really great mileage out of one terrible and hilarious interaction with Cohen. He not only told Mak that marital rape is impossible — and thus that Trump couldn’t possibly have raped then-wife Ivana Trump — but also said, in the most colorful terms, that he’d sue the Daily Beast if they wrote about the allegations.
That is, for the record, the very best way to ensure that a reporter writes about something. And so they did, including the lawsuit threats as part of the story:
“I will make sure that you and I meet one day while we’re in the courthouse. And I will take you for every penny you still don’t have. And I will come after your Daily Beast and everybody else that you possibly know,” Cohen said. “So I’m warning you, tread very fucking lightly, because what I’m going to do to you is going to be fucking disgusting. You understand me?”
“You write a story that has Mr. Trump’s name in it, with the word ‘rape,’ and I’m going to mess your life up… for as long as you’re on this frickin’ planet… you’re going to have judgments against you, so much money, you’ll never know how to get out from underneath it,” he added.
Good. Good idea, Michael, good talking.
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